and it's a dilemma for us. maliki's accused of being the new saddam or a muscular democrat, you can choose. i don't care. the point is, he's got some choices to make that are difficult. trying with this technology here, it's driving me crazy. now, i think maliki is wary of syria, i think all iraqis are. it's allowed sunni-arab call fates back across the border to smuggle weapons, it's stirred up the sunni arab tribes, it's given safe haven to members of saddam's family and regime, and let's remember anti-baathist enemies diehard. and i think it's much more than being baathist versus baathist or arab versus arab, there's always been a rivalry between these two states and leaderships going back in time. iran is just that baghdad support the assad regime, help it supply with whatever it needs, permit air resupply operations, cross-border traction sit of -- transit of trucks, access to hard currency and gold that's in banks. baghdad, where does baghdad stand in this? complicated. they refuse to sign a status of for